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The Beatles: Fab Four Cities: Liverpool - Hamburg - London - New York
John Lennon "We were born in Liverpool, but we grew up in Hamburg." To paraphrase Lennon, we could say "The Beatles were born in Liverpool, grew up in Hamburg, reached maturity in London, and immortality in New York."
Four cities. Four stars. The Fab Four - the Beatles - are revered the world over, but it is in these urban centres that their legacy shines brightest. where the band graduated from church halls, leaving their initial line-up as 'The Quarrymen' far behind. where their raucous stage act was honed; where arrests earned them a more notorious celebrity reputation, but they became a true emblem of rock 'n' roll. where The Beatles produced Sgt Pepper, and home to the iconic album cover for Abbey Road. And New the city that became John Lennon's home, where their appearance on the Ed Sullivan Show announced them to 73 million Americans.
The Fab Four Cities invites the reader on a cosmopolitan trek across continents, tracing the Beatles' rise to fame from one metropolis to the next. Flush with timelines, stories, trivia, the numerous links and connections between the cities and both pop cultural and local history, this is a travel guide like no other.
Four cities. Four stars. The Fab Four - the Beatles - are revered the world over, but it is in these urban centres that their legacy shines brightest. where the band graduated from church halls, leaving their initial line-up as 'The Quarrymen' far behind. where their raucous stage act was honed; where arrests earned them a more notorious celebrity reputation, but they became a true emblem of rock 'n' roll. where The Beatles produced Sgt Pepper, and home to the iconic album cover for Abbey Road. And New the city that became John Lennon's home, where their appearance on the Ed Sullivan Show announced them to 73 million Americans.
The Fab Four Cities invites the reader on a cosmopolitan trek across continents, tracing the Beatles' rise to fame from one metropolis to the next. Flush with timelines, stories, trivia, the numerous links and connections between the cities and both pop cultural and local history, this is a travel guide like no other.
192 pages, Paperback
Published October 4, 2021
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August 14, 2023
"If the Beatles were born in Liverpool, honed their craft in Hamburg, and grew up in London, they truly became an international phenomenon in New York. It was their appearance on 'The Ed Sullivan Show' on 9 February 1964 that truly took the world by storm, introducing them to millions of people on a scale they could never have imagined and sparking full-blown, worldwide Beatlemania." - page 149
The Beatles: Fab Four Cities is a trivia-filled travelogue, brimming with dates and locales (and often present-day photographs) of residences, clubs, recording studios, hotels and other venues utilized by the rock group from their childhoods straight through to the post-breakup period in the quartet of metropolises that were arguably most responsible for sparking their wild international success. Not necessarily any sort of essential reading, but it will be best appreciated by die-hard Fab Four fans.
The Beatles: Fab Four Cities is a trivia-filled travelogue, brimming with dates and locales (and often present-day photographs) of residences, clubs, recording studios, hotels and other venues utilized by the rock group from their childhoods straight through to the post-breakup period in the quartet of metropolises that were arguably most responsible for sparking their wild international success. Not necessarily any sort of essential reading, but it will be best appreciated by die-hard Fab Four fans.
December 30, 2024
A brilliant travel book.
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